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December 2005
December 4 , EventScope Director, Peter Coppin returned from an expedition to Licancabur and Poquentica volcanos in Bolivia. Joining the expedition as an education and public outreach representative, Coppin documented the High Lakes 2005 expedition from Oct. 20 through Nov 24, sending journal entries, photos, and even video back from the field. View the High Lakes website here, and read the field journal here.
October 2005
October 26, Eben Myers, EventScope's Lead Designer, presented a poster at the IEEE Visualization 2005 conference in Minneapolis, MN. Titled, "The EventScope Remote Science Operations Tool: Using a Visualization of a Remote Location as an Interface for Robotic Exploration," the poster covered EventScope's development of a remote science tool for the Life in the Atacama project. Click here to learn more.
October 23, EventScope was featured at an event for the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. Eben Myers demonstrated the EventScope Remote Science Operations Tool used in the Life in the Atacama project. The event was hosted by Carnegie Mellon University.
October 11 , Life in the Atacama 2005 Science operations drew to a close as the science team wrapped up their explorations of Site F. The science team had been using the EventScope Remote Science Operations Tool to command a rover from the EventScope Lab in Pittsburgh as it explored the Atacama Desert in Chile. For more information see the project website.
July 2005
July 21, Life in the Atacama 2005 held its second Operational Readiness Test (ORT) at Carnegie Mellon University and the EventScope lab in Pittsburgh. Scientists used the EventScope Remote Science Operations interface to control Zoë as the rover explored a nearby test site. Both the interface and the rover are on track for the beginning of the field season in September.
May
2005
May 26-27,
Life in the Atacama 2005 held its first
Operational Readiness Test (ORT) at Carnegie Mellon University
and the EventScope lab in Pittsburgh. Scientists
used the EventScope Remote Science Operations interface to control
Zoë as the rover explored a nearby test site. Both the interface
and the rover are on track for a successful second ORT in July
and the beginning of the field season in September.
April
2005
April 20,
New Versions of the EventScope Software
were released today. Version
5.4 of the EventScope Viewers and Authoring Tool were released.
Improved interfaces and greater stability are some of the new
features found in this release. In addition to the EventScope
Viewer, Authoring Tool, and Wide-Angle Viewer, a Kiosk Viewer
for museums is now available. All four programs are now available
for both PC and Mac. Download them
now!
March
2005
March 18,
EventScope was well represented at the Lunar
Planetary Science Conference this month. Peter
Coppin, EventScope Primary Investigator, and Eben Myers, Lead
Visual Designer, recently returned from the conference at which
they presented a poster and demo of the education and public outreach
strategy used for the Life in the Atacama project. Click
here to learn more.
February
2005
February 4,
An EventScope demo has been scheduled to
take place at the Lunar Planetary Science Conference outside Houston,
TX. Taking place
in March, 2005, the LPSC includes an education and public outreach
session at which EventScope will be shown.
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